La Celestina , el humanismo vernáculo y la invención literaria

Abstract

If Celestina was conceived in Salamanca at the end of the 15th century, then the humanist ideas that were circulating necessarily had an impact in its creation. In this essay we focus on some ideas that appear in the work —especially those exposed in the opening epistolary prologue— and in the links between them and the thoughts of representative Castilian writers of the time, like Juan de Lucena (1431-1504) and Antonio de Nebrija (1441-1522). Ideas on the didactic value of fiction and the importance given to the creation of literature written in the vernacular language are in agreement with ideas advanced by the Castilian vernacular humanism of the second half of the 15th century in translations, epistolary exchanges and the dissemination of moral philosophy.